Late last year, VMWare released a player version of their full Virtual Machine Workstation product. This utility uses ready made disk images or ‘appliances’ with pre-installed OS and software. The only restriction was that the player cannot create new virtual machines. Was a restriction… :)

The following links will help you download and create as many virtual machines as you need, for use with VMWare Player. For example, I currently have a machine running XP with the excrable IE7 installed, while my productive OS hasn’t been soiled.

Creating an XP Pro VM
How to create virtual machines using VMware Player

Software/Tools
VMXWizard – Win32 EXE
ISO Recorder – Burn ISOs natively in XP
VM Builder – Online form
EasyVMX – Online form

Operating Systems
DOS7.1
Knoppix (Linux) installer image ¦ appliance (you need both)

Appliances
More Appliances
Network Analysis
Multi Browser
Old DOS Games

Not to be outdone by anyone else though, he's having multiple best men due to the geographical distribution of his best buddies. I'm the Swiss best man, but there will be a UK-based one (doing all the work!) and one in America. We will be having a stag night in each location!

It should come as no surprise (to people that know me) that one of my tasks involves creating a website for the happy couple. It will serve as a kind of wedding list, but not for fondue sets and toastie makers or vases and cutlery sets and all that crap – they've already set up home together and have better taste than your average wedding guest – instead they will have a list of experiences for people to purchase for them.

The honeymoon will take in Asia and Australia (yet again, lucky bastards!), so the experiences will mostly be in those regions allowing some rather extravagant possibilities which I will update you on in a future post. Watch this space for more news on Mark and Chantelle's excellent adventure…

Every day I find more and more pointless messages from people who think they can earn money out of someone else's hobby.

Well I've had it with spammers. Fuck off and buy your own website instead of polluting mine with your useless and offensive shite. One day I'll do a road trip and track down some of these p0ker players and v1agra advertisers and pour paintstripper on their cars. Then I'll write a polite message like, 'Found your car while I was looking for a poker game, thanks a lot for all your hard work, enjoy paying for my mindless vandalism while I go buy some online v1agra'

übercunt Andy Hoffmann and his arrogant 'above the law' Indian gambling reservation will be the first to suffer. I know where he lives and he's top on the list.